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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
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Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
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The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
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There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.
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The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many for what is genius or courage without a heart?
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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